Dom
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Does anyone know any software that will complete erase (or destroy) a hard drive (with random character etc passes)?
Need to send a drive back for replacement and want to completely get rid of the data on the drive (and/or screw it up more if possible).
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mazdaspeed
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Do large magnets work?
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John
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http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/autoclave/
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Pablo
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Try kill disk
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by John
http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/autoclave/
yeah it's the one i usually use, but need a windows program as Dos programs don't find my sata drives due to a raid array - had problems with using the dos version of seatools and partition magic and all sorts.
cheers paul, will give it a go 
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Tim
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As Paul says Active Killdisk, or Google for DBAN. That generally works with hardware RAID too 
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chloe16v
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quote:
Originally posted by Dom
Does anyone know any software that will complete erase (or destroy) a hard drive (with random character etc passes)?
Need to send a drive back for replacement and want to completely get rid of the data on the drive (and/or screw it up more if possible).
if you wasnt watchin kiddy porn you wouldnt need to do this  
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M2RTY
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dban or seagate do a free app
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Sam
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Just smack it against a hard surface a couple of times, that's what we used to do for warranty replacements when I worked for a PC World type outfit back in the days when I were a young lad.
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John
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Hard drives are rated to hundreds of G's these days.
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